internal combustion
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- noun
- /ɪnˈtɜrnəl kəmˈbʌsʧən/
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combustión interna
- The internal combustion engine revolutionized transportation by allowing vehicles to run on gasoline.
- internal combustion engine
- internal combustion vehicles
- internal combustion cars
You have both an EV platform and an internal combustion engine system and a gas tank.
- You have both an EV platform and an internal combustion engine system and a gas tank.
- I mean, we're still pumping gas into internal combustion engines.
- So Carl Benz sort of makes a really good version of an internal combustion engine.
- They said that they would use the proceeds to buy more internal combustion engine cars.
- And all which and all transportation systems, internal combustion engines, jet engines, rockets, surface roads.
- So your TEF, our bodies are kind of like, for lack of a poor analogy, but analogy that works is cars like internal combustion engine.
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Off in the countryside, a boom in farm equipment manufacturing was underway, spurred by the internal combustion engine.
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The spark-ignited internal combustion engine was the great enabling technology for the automobile.
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People would be more likely to trade in their internal combustion engine vehicles for all electric vehicles.
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More powerful than our modern internal combustion engines.
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Uh, last year I built an internal combustion engine... and entered it in the science fair.
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Sir, perhaps you would take a few moments and show the children how an internal combustion engine works.
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Over the last several years, the internal combustion engines began to show their age.
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Continued improvements to internal combustion vehicles can be expected, but fuel cell vehicles will be difficult to match.
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By 1920, the internal combustion engine had won the race for control of the roads, and the modern automobile age was born.
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The new machine requires less maintenance than those that rely on internal combustion engines, Espinosa said.
Academic text (2000)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the parts: 'internal' = within and 'combustion' = burning/chemical reaction, so 'internal combustion' denotes burning that occurs inside a chamber. This modifier+noun composition is cross-linguistically transparent and a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the basic meaning, even if they lack technical engine knowledge.
Etymology
Internal combustion comes from a simple picture: internal means 'inside' and combustion means 'burning'. So it describes fuel burning inside an engine to produce power.